Peter L. Warren

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Publications in Fire Ecology

Private-public Collaboration to Reintroduce Fire Into the Changing Ecosystems of the Southwestern Borderlands RegionPages: 85-99DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0501085

Fires caused by lightning or Native Americans were the major ecological factor in the borderlands region of Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico prior to European settlement. Historical overgrazing and aggressive fire suppression have led to the encroachment of woody vegetation and accumulations of woody fuels in these grasslands. Ranchers associated with the Malpai Borderlands Group, state and federal land managers, and the staff of The Nature Conservancy agreed that re-introducing fire could improve landscape productivity and biological diversity. [Read More]